“Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth”

“Strength and struggle go together. The supreme reward of struggle is strength. Life is a battle and the greatest joy is to overcome. The pursuit of easy things makes men weak. Do not equip yourselves with superior power and hope to escape the responsibility and work. It cannot be done. It is following the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked. ”

“When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.”

“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”

“It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.”

“The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.”

“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.”